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Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...

Simon Willison

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It includes detailed examples, including the full Claude Code process I used to build this new Colophon page, which presents the Git commit histories for each of my collection of LLM-assisted web tools in one place tools.simonwillison.net/colophon

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Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

13 Mar 2025

Colophon update: I added automated documentation for all 78 of my tools, written by piping the HTML through Claude 3.7 Sonnet I was hesitant to do this at first but the utility of the resulting explanations convinced me it was worthwhile More details here: simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/...

simonwillison.netMy tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptionsThe [/colophon](https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon) page on my tools site lists all 78 of my tools along with their commit histories, including links to prompting transcripts. I wrote about [how...

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

14 Mar 2025

I decided the descriptions it wrote were too long, so I added "Keep it to 2-3 sentences" to the prompt and rebuilt them all to be more concise: github.com/simonw/tools...

Matt Sayar

@mattsayar.com

14 Mar 2025

> It cost about $1.08 in Claude credits to document all 78 tools Does this imply you used Claude Code? Or your llm CLI

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

14 Mar 2025

I used my CLI tool, here's my script: github.com/simonw/tools...

github.comtools/write_docs.py at 5322f55a2e7006541e80a5ffe13aeb89c74c6cef · simonw/toolsAssorted tools. Contribute to simonw/tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

adpirz.bsky.social

@adpirz.bsky.social

12 Mar 2025

I’ve been following your stuff for a while now and your articles continue to be the most measured and grounded-in-real-world-experience takes when it comes to practical LLM applications. No hype, no doom, no dismissal. Thanks for being a standard bearer here.